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Effect of interactive cognitive-motor training on eye-hand coordination and cognitive function in older adults

BACKGROUND: Poor eye–hand coordination is associated with the symptoms of the early stage of cognitive decline. However, previous research on the eye–hand coordination of older adults without cognitive impairment is scant. Therefore, this study examined the effects of interactive cognitive-motor tra...

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Autores principales: Chan, Pi-Tuan, Chang, Wen-Chi, Chiu, Huei-Ling, Kao, Ching-Chiu, Liu, Doresses, Chu, Hsin, Chou, Kuei-Ru
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6350349/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30691404
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12877-019-1029-y
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author Chan, Pi-Tuan
Chang, Wen-Chi
Chiu, Huei-Ling
Kao, Ching-Chiu
Liu, Doresses
Chu, Hsin
Chou, Kuei-Ru
author_facet Chan, Pi-Tuan
Chang, Wen-Chi
Chiu, Huei-Ling
Kao, Ching-Chiu
Liu, Doresses
Chu, Hsin
Chou, Kuei-Ru
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description BACKGROUND: Poor eye–hand coordination is associated with the symptoms of the early stage of cognitive decline. However, previous research on the eye–hand coordination of older adults without cognitive impairment is scant. Therefore, this study examined the effects of interactive cognitive-motor training on the visual-motor integration, visual perception, and motor coordination sub-abilities of the eye–hand coordination and cognitive function in older adults. METHODS: A double-blind randomized controlled trial was conducted with older adults. Sixty-two older adults were randomly assigned to the experimental (interactive cognitive-motor training) or active control (passive information activity) group, and both groups received 30 min of training each week, three times a week for 8 weeks. The primary outcome was eye–hand coordination, which was further divided into the sub-abilities of visual–motor integration, visual perception, and motor coordination. The secondary outcome was cognitive function. The generalized estimating equation was used to examine differences in immediate posttest, 3-month posttest, and 6-month posttest results between the two groups. Additionally, the baseline effect sizes were compared with the effect sizes of the immediate posttest, 3-month posttest, and 6-month posttests for the experimental group. RESULTS: There were no statistically significant differences between the intervention and control groups. The only statistically significant difference between the groups was in the attention dimension of cognitive function (p = 0.04). The visual–motor integration results showed a small to moderate effect size for pre post comparisons. CONCLUSIONS: The 24 sessions of interactive cognitive-motor training showed no difference to an active control intervention. In the future, this intervention could be further investigated to establish whether it can be superior to an active control group in other populations. TRIAL REGISTRATION: The study protocol has been published on Chinese Clinical Trial Registry (ChiCTR) (registry no.: ChiCTR-IOR-14005490). ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (10.1186/s12877-019-1029-y) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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spelling pubmed-63503492019-02-04 Effect of interactive cognitive-motor training on eye-hand coordination and cognitive function in older adults Chan, Pi-Tuan Chang, Wen-Chi Chiu, Huei-Ling Kao, Ching-Chiu Liu, Doresses Chu, Hsin Chou, Kuei-Ru BMC Geriatr Research Article BACKGROUND: Poor eye–hand coordination is associated with the symptoms of the early stage of cognitive decline. However, previous research on the eye–hand coordination of older adults without cognitive impairment is scant. Therefore, this study examined the effects of interactive cognitive-motor training on the visual-motor integration, visual perception, and motor coordination sub-abilities of the eye–hand coordination and cognitive function in older adults. METHODS: A double-blind randomized controlled trial was conducted with older adults. Sixty-two older adults were randomly assigned to the experimental (interactive cognitive-motor training) or active control (passive information activity) group, and both groups received 30 min of training each week, three times a week for 8 weeks. The primary outcome was eye–hand coordination, which was further divided into the sub-abilities of visual–motor integration, visual perception, and motor coordination. The secondary outcome was cognitive function. The generalized estimating equation was used to examine differences in immediate posttest, 3-month posttest, and 6-month posttest results between the two groups. Additionally, the baseline effect sizes were compared with the effect sizes of the immediate posttest, 3-month posttest, and 6-month posttests for the experimental group. RESULTS: There were no statistically significant differences between the intervention and control groups. The only statistically significant difference between the groups was in the attention dimension of cognitive function (p = 0.04). The visual–motor integration results showed a small to moderate effect size for pre post comparisons. CONCLUSIONS: The 24 sessions of interactive cognitive-motor training showed no difference to an active control intervention. In the future, this intervention could be further investigated to establish whether it can be superior to an active control group in other populations. TRIAL REGISTRATION: The study protocol has been published on Chinese Clinical Trial Registry (ChiCTR) (registry no.: ChiCTR-IOR-14005490). ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (10.1186/s12877-019-1029-y) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. BioMed Central 2019-01-28 /pmc/articles/PMC6350349/ /pubmed/30691404 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12877-019-1029-y Text en © The Author(s). 2019 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Liu, Doresses
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Chou, Kuei-Ru
Effect of interactive cognitive-motor training on eye-hand coordination and cognitive function in older adults
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title_short Effect of interactive cognitive-motor training on eye-hand coordination and cognitive function in older adults
title_sort effect of interactive cognitive-motor training on eye-hand coordination and cognitive function in older adults
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6350349/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30691404
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12877-019-1029-y
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